Should I start Bijan Robinson or Isaac TeSlaa in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bijan Robinson, and the board ranks him 36th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaac TeSlaa, and the board ranks him 37th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Bijan Robinson is 5.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Isaac TeSlaa's market-based projection is 4.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 45th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

Bijan Robinson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Bijan Robinson has been on the field for 71 percent of ATL snaps, taken 66 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 46 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 55 third down targets, had 7 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 32 targets have come 1.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against BAL he carried 17 times for 86 yards, caught 4 of 7 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CHI he carried 9 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for -8 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against SF he carried 20 times for 63 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 45 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Isaac TeSlaa has been on the field for 60 percent of DET snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 12.4 air yards.

In Week 4 against CAR he caught 4 of 8 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Bijan Robinson played 17 games and scored 370.8 PPR points, 21.8 a game, finishing RB2.

He carried 287 times for 1478 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 79 of 103 targets for 820 more yards.

That came to 16.9 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 4.6 catches a game.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Isaac TeSlaa played 17 games and scored 75.9 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR82.

He caught 16 of 27 targets for 239 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Bijan Robinson scored 21.8 PPR points a game and Isaac TeSlaa 4.5, 17.3 a game between them.

Bijan Robinson finished RB2 and Isaac TeSlaa WR82, which are two different ladders.

Bijan Robinson is a running back and Isaac TeSlaa a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Bijan Robinson is off in Week 11 and Isaac TeSlaa in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Bijan Robinson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.